I recently returned to Waze after a few years. This scenario has arisen twice within my first two hours of driving. Both times instead of straight I was directed to make a right, a U-turn and another right. I spent quite a bit of time looking at the intersections in the editor before finding this thread.

If it happened to me twice in two hours of driving I imagine it has to be a very frequent occurrence. Probably not the best way to greet brand new wazers.

Of course a lot of people in my area drive this way, cut through parking lots and do other things that are considered bad form in the name of saving 30 seconds. Regardless of whether this is the fastest way to get through the intersection, should a navigation program be suggesting this route? Perhaps an aggressive driving mode is called for?

I started a different thread on this, but after stewing about it I think this may be the same problem; needlessly avoiding left turns.

This is a drive I do two to three times daily. This was at a low traffic time with no visible alerts. Instead of a left at the light, Waze made several valiant different attempts to route me around this intersection. This was the simplest of the bad options consisting of a right, left at a stop sign and then straight on back through the same intersection.

AlanOfTheBerg wrote:Aren't there any complaints that Waze will never say "turn left" here?

Not an issue since the left turn here is allowed and the livemap shows that the router is sending people that way instead

That said, if the left turn lane was un-named, it should give a "stay to the left at Rangewood Dr" direction at the start of the left turn lane which may be enough without a follow-on "turn" instruction. Oh, and that left turn lane should be typed as Primary as well.